T.J. Hooker

We learn in this episode that Detective O'Brien has been a law officer for 25 years.

In this episode we see a Captain Danza grilling Hooker, indicating that Captain Sheridan, who hadn't been seen since the fourth season episode "Anatomy Of A Killing," is no longer stationed at the headquarters.

Though with a number of new shots mixed in, the car chase at the climax is recycled from the third season episode "Slay Ride" – in many exterior shots, if you look closely, you can see Hooker dressed as Santa Claus.

When Stacy stops from her jog on the beach to talk to Steven Kennedy, the sound of the ocean behind them noticeably fades as she speaks, and crashes back in again on Steven's lines.

When Hooker and Stacy are watching video footage of the Senator before the bomb exploded, the shot of the TV is a matte picture – i.e. the television set and the surrounding décor are a picture inserted over the film underneath. (Commonly used on TV and films; if a real TV was recorded, there would be strobing on the picture, though sometimes nowadays there are techniques where it is done).

There was no real reason for Corrigan and Stacy's patrol car to explode. The car skids out of control, it doesn't even hit anything, and the next minute it is smoking, about to blow up.

When Hooker, Stacy and Corrigan are walking along outside the LCPD headquarters, Hooker's line "A silver sedan car. I got the first two letters of the license plate..." is noticeably dubbed – his lips don't even sync.

As Hooker, alone in a patrol car, gets the description of the van over the radio, there is a brief exterior shot of the patrol car driving past the camera where two officers can be seen sitting inside.

In the scene where Corrigan and Stacy are making enquires on the street, the shot seems to be filmed on a "live" street – and a black guy can be seen walking right through shot, and looking right into the camera, before seemingly realizing that something is being filmed behind him.

The sequence of Hooker chasing Reese Corley's car through the high-rise parking lot, which ends up with Corley's car crashing over the edge of the roof, is recycled from the third season episode "The Lipstick Killer."

When the criminal and Stacy shoot each other at the same time, the criminal goes down eyes wide open, obviously dead; yet there's not a trace of blood on his clothes including his white T-shirt.

A sequence of action, when Hooker crashes his patrol car into the side of a charavan, which promptly catches fire and explodes, is recycled from the third season episode "The Lipstick Killer."

Recycled from the third season episode "The Snow Game," footage of Hooker at night, chasing a suspect (played by Al White), illuminated by the over-head Police helicopter, is completely re-worked. In the original episode, Al White's character was called J.D. Laws; here he is playing a different character, Freddie, but in the next scene, when he is being questioned at the station, dons exactly the same clothes as in his original appearance.

Footage near the beginning of the story, as DeNiro races off in his car, knocking a fire barrel over, and Corrigan and Stacy giving pursuit before they crash, is recycled from the third season episode "Hot Property."

When Nathan and Hooker are watching the film in which Brodsky's niece is killed, when Lester gives her the fatal blow to the face, the shot cuts from her being punched to her falling on the floor. Since when we see this scene at the beginning of episode only one camera is filming it, there is no way there could be two different shots.

After the carousel scene, we see that Jim and Stacy both have very wet hair from the thunderstorm. Vince and Hooker arrive later, but we see that even though Romano's hair is somewhat damp, T.J. however has perfectly blow-dried, fluffy hair.

The shot used of lighting in the sky is one of the most used of all stock footage effects, turning up in countless television series.

The shots we see of the motorcycles dirt racing is quite clearly stock footage, evident by the change in film quality. Also, in the first shot we see, it appears to be day (or at least, a very well lit course), but on the next shot, it is much darker.

In the shot looking from Corrigan and Hooker's pursuing patrol car to the fleeing robbers car, the patrol car appears to be much closer behind than in connecting shots looking from the back of the robbers car and externally at the two cars.

When Donovan is shot by Corrigan, he falls with his eyes scrunched up. As the scene cuts to him falling to the ground to his side, you see his eyes wide open.